The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-23
THE BEST AND WORST CITY
THAT IS WHAT NEW YORK is FOR
HOUSEKEEPERS.


Some of The Hard Worked Men Who
Seem to be Idlers-A Few Facts
About Them Which Do Not Appear
on the Surface.
New York, Oct. 22.--New York is tho
best and worst city in America in which to
keep house. Charles Delmonico, the pres
emit head of the famous restaurant firm, de-
clRres that you can get more for a shilling
and less for pound in Paris or London than
in New York The epigram applies in a
great measure to housekeeping in New
York. Here is the record of the expert
ence of a man in the metropolis who went
70 housekeeping on a modest scale. After
he had formed a firm determination 10 no
longer be boarder he set out to search tor
quarters in which to set up his household
gods by himself The newspapers reeked
with advertisements of most attractive
places. There first developed in him a
burning desire to have house all by HIM
self, but be made the sad discovery that no
man of moderate means can afford that lux
ury in New York. Even Chauncey NJ
Depew, the President Of the New York
Central railroad, lives in house, elegant as
it is, that the average gentleman of means
outside of New ork would consider almost
circumscribed in area. The house hunter
found one suite of rooms which seemed TO
have all the advantage of cozinesS, and was
about to set up housekeeping there when he
made the alarming discovery that there was
an insane woman and dog that barked per
petually in the building that he was about
to select rs his abiding place He then went
out INTO suburban territory and had firmly
do - nd fp N "a
Jersey Thomas Mast and thousands of
busy New Workers live over there. but the
Journey to and from your house to your
place Of business involves long ard not al
ways quick ride. One morning a train from
one of these New Jersey towns was delayed
until nearly midday by a wreck, and the
house hunter was deferred by this circum-
stance from carrying out his well-formed
plan to move into one of the pretty New
Jersey hamlets. Then he cast about for a
place in Brooklyn. 1t is favorable point
of residence, and apparently near to the
centres of business in New York, but one
trip over the bridge during the busy hours
convinced him that no man who had an alb
florence of crowding could live in Brooklyn
and be entirely at peace with the world
There is probably no outlet from New York
where you are as thoroughly jostled by |
your fellow-men as in going between New
York and Brooklyn. A large proportion
of the journalists of moderate means live in |
Brooklyn, and when once you are there it is
a pleasant place.
The householder finally selected modest
fat in that haven of all economical persons
of pronounced taste and rather limited
means. namely, Harlem. The crowds that
surge out toward that living resort are big
enough to make seat in an elevated train
an almost u 'btainable luxury during the
evening and 1orning hours, but the house
holder, as a last desperate resort fixed upon
Harlem. He was first asked: Have YOU
any children Being able to answer that
in the negative, he was questioned by the
suspicious owner of a fiat as to whether or
not he owned adog. He guitilv answered
in the affirmative and was told that no dog
owner could have quarters in the building
He sent his dog away, rented a fiat and con-
tracted for the removal of his household
goods. In fit of economy he hired cheap
expreSsman to move his trunks One of
them contained all the money he had in the
world. Twelve hours elapsed and no trunks
appeared. When the would-be householder
went to look for them, the expressman had
closed his place and no trace of the missing
baggage could be found. After a painful
suspense of forty-eight hours the trunks
turned up, one of them being in q sadly
wrecked condition. There was no gas in the
fat and the Harlemite set out to find the
Office of the company controlling the light
in the domicile He found it, and was
rather CURLY told that he must deposit 50 ]
before any move to give him light would be =
made. He put up the required amount, and
then made bold to ask when the company
would be SO kind as TO give him gas. Ii was
discovered that there was no meter in the
apartments, and the presiding genius at the
gas Office calmly said that it would be at
least week before it would be possible TO
turn on the gas. The house hunter. who
had stood in line had waited weary hour
for the privilege of getting this discourag.
ing information. went TO his barracks in a
state of great gloom and illuminated them
with candles set up in pasteboard boxes. 1t
was a gloomy and grewsoma experience At
last the gas was turned on and the person of
the premises sent to a Western city for the
remainder of his household effects. They
came with great promptness and with equal
to the wrong building A porter who had
Eastern cities agreed to tote the goods 20
worth and they ware "toted . When they had
been all put in place aud had been firmly
attached to their moorings, the head of the
alleged house found. all too late, that the
occupants of the flat below him cooked cab
bage every evening for dinner, aud that his
neighbors of the upper fiat had children
VINO squalled all night To one who has en-
joyed the fresh, free air of the boundlesS
West il appears for the time that New York
ers % moderate means don't live, they
merely stay. AMOS j. CUMMINGS.